All construction detours lead to Manlius Center Road: Your letters

When we purchased a new home in the Fremont area off Route 290 (Manlius Center Road) in 1956, there were only a handful of commercial businesses nearby. As a result, Manlius Center Road is a narrow one with only a single lane in each direction.

Over 57 years, commercial construction has caused excessive traffic here. It is often impossible to pull onto it from any side street with the constant bumper-to-bumper vehicles.

At present, Fremont Road is down to one lane because of repairs to bridge over the rail yard - causing constant backups. And the bridge to the village of East Syracuse off Route 290 is also closed for work. (this is right by Bridge Street, where people go to access Interstate 690.) Also the Highway Department has been removing large trees on Route 290. And many side streets in the area are also being paved.

Why, then, did they decide to funnel trucks and car traffic from Route 5 in Fayetteville over Burdick Street to Route 290, which is already congested and overburdened? DOT's estimate stated "about 11,000 vehicles travel that route every day." And it is expected to last two months.

They might better have used East Genesee Street. As busy as it is, at least it has multiple lanes which could more readily have handled this mess.

Don't towns check with one another before arranging to direct their problem load on one another?